Very simply, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research is the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success toward a goal.

Metadata is "data about data”. If managed properly, it is generated whenever data is created, acquired, added to, deleted from, or updated - in any data store and data system in the scope of the enterprise data architecture.